.htaccess is a small text file which is placed either directly in a domain folder or inside a subfolder to tell the server how it has to handle requests when an Internet site or a folder that's part of it is accessed. A lot of famous scripts including Joomla™ and WordPress use an .htaccess file. If you get a considerable amount of fake traffic to your website, for instance, you may block the access of specific IP addresses and third-party websites, or you could request the visitor to input a username and a password in order to see the content. You could also set up URL redirecting or use personalized error pages for your site, prevent other sites from linking to your content directly and from using your account’s traffic quota, and so forth. An .htaccess file will give you far more control over your Internet sites and the way they work.
.htaccess Generator in Cloud Web Hosting
If you would like to use any of the features which an .htaccess file provides, but you've never dealt with such matters before, you should use the .htaccess generator tool offered with our cloud web hosting solutions. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia CP and it shall give you a simple and user-friendly means to create an .htaccess file within any folder that you have created in the account. Many options will be available with checkboxes, so you should only pick the one which you need and eventually input a URL - if you are using the file to forward a domain or to set custom made error pages for any of your Internet sites. Considering that our cloud platform supports a number of different PHP versions, you shall also be able to set any of these versions for each of your websites regardless if it's different from the version set for your web hosting account as a whole.